Journalism is not a crime.

The US security coordinator said evidence suggested that Israeli military fire was likely responsible for the death of Shireen Abu Akleh.

The US state department said it could not conclude who had fired the bullet that killed Aljazeera’s journalist.

Impunity for crimes against journalists and media professionals threatens the right to know, the right to press freedom and UN human rights-based efforts to promote peace, security, and sustainable development.

Shireen Abu Akleh’s tragic death has been perpetrated within a wider campaign by the Israeli Army to target journalists and to attempt to prevent them from reporting about events in the occupied West Bank and in Gaza. It is part of a campaign to target and shut down the operations of Al Jazeera in the area. The bombing of Al Jazeera’s offices in May 2021 represented a deliberate attempt to frustrate press freedom and the ability of journalists to do their job, by targeting their place of work and destroying their reporting equipment. The killing of Ms. Abu Akleh, in May 2022, marks an escalation in the measures adopted by the Israeli army to silence journalists and repress their work reporting about events in the West Bank. Ms. Abu Akleh’s death has had a profound impact on journalists in the region and beyond,

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